Ian Bremmer

our people even though i didn't feel any envy i kind of felt like well i'm rooting for them to win they're kind of like the home team the armenians and so until i got to a place that i felt comfortable that i understood that bias that i could pack it away and that i could talk objectively about it um which i think i've gotten much better at on that issue though it's a very small issue at the end of the day um i didn't want to engage on that issue professionally

And I think that if you are trying to not have your hair on fire on the news, it is important to understand if there are areas of the news that you have a very strong bias on,

And don't consider that part of the news.

Just consider that part of your identity, whatever it is, right?

And try not to spend as much time following the news on that.

So for example, if you're trying to set up your social media feed so it is useful for you on news,

avoid the people that are experts on the topic that you are super biased on.

Because you're not going to get anything from that.

All you're going to do is like the people that already agree with you and hate watch the people that don't.

But it's not going to help you at all.

So stay away from something that is a structural bias.

And then also longer form, longer form.

It's why, I mean, when they say kids don't read and they're worried that everything is a headline, kids listen to podcasts all the time.

I've got folks, I mean, 80 year olds watch my show on PBS.

20 year olds are listening to the same thing on a podcast.

In fact, sometimes it's an extended version and they're getting more out of it.

So it's not like young people can't do long form, but they digest it in different ways.

And long form content is better

Because when you're talking about serious and complicated issues, it doesn't lend itself to a short, pithy answer.

Like the world, the next order, is it going to be unipolar?